The Myth of Nature and the Nature of Myth: Becoming Transparent to Transcendence
International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 2005 Dennis Patrick Slattery 8 citations
The works by the American mythologist, Joseph Campbell, as well as the poetry of John Keats, especially his “Ode to a Nightingale,” offer new ways to reimagine our relation to the earth, to the dead and to language’s continued vitality. Beginning with a brief overview of some of the major tenets of Campbell’s guiding force of the “monomyth,” which gathers all the various world mythologies as...